How to Make Gingerbread Cookie Ornaments
These cinnamon spiced Gingerbread Cookie Ornaments are easy to make and edible! The perfect Christmas season craft for kids and adults.
Servings: 2 dozen
Cost: $5
Equipment
- AirBake Cookie Sheets
- Christmas Cookie Cutters
- Wood Rolling Pin (optional)
- Icing tips for decorating (if needed for your tubed icing)
Ingredients
- 1 cup Margarine (or butter)
- ⅔ cup Packed Brown Sugar
- ⅔ cup Molasses (or corn syrup)
- 1 ½ teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 Egg beaten
- 4 cups All Purpose Flour
- ¾ teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Ginger
- ½ teaspoon Cloves
- Cookie Icing- tube icing
- Red Hots (optional)
- Ribbon or Gold Cord for hanging cookies as ornaments
Instructions
- In a saucepan, combine the margarine (or butter), sugar, and molasses (or corn syrup.
- Cook and stir over medium heat until the margarine is melted and sugar dissolves. Pour into a mixing bowl.
- Stir in vanilla, then cool 5 minutes. Add the egg, mix well.
- In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture, mix well.
- Cover and chill 2 hours, or overnight.
- Put a piece of waxed paper down in front of each child and give them each a chunk of gingerbread dough.
- Roll or pat the dough down into a flat pancake about ⅜ in thick, then use cookie cutters to cut as many shapes out of the dough as will fit.
- Peel the cookies off the waxed paper and placed on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Once on the cookie sheet, we used a drinking straw to make holes in the top of the cookies so we could add a ribbon and hang them. Place the holes at least ⅜ inch from the edge and centered on the top of the cookie.
- Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheets.
- Decorate the cooled cookies with white icing and red hots, or use your favorite icing colors and candy!
- Thread string through the holes in the cookies, and tie into a loop. Hang on your Christmas tree and enjoy all season long!